Meanings
plural Zipser Germans
- Synonym of Zipser.
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Yet there still remained non-Magyar speakers in the country. Germans, representing around 7 percent of the total population (approximately half a million individuals), were the largest non-Magyar group after the departure of the Romanians and Slovaks. These Germans were essentially the so-called Swabians who had arrived in the eighteenth century. (The Transylvanian Saxons were now in Romania, the Zipser Germans in Czechoslovakia, and the Swabians of the Banat were divided between Romania and Yugoslavia.)
2017, John C. Swanson, Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBNSynonyms: Zipser
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of Zipser.
adjectiveSynonym of Zipser.
Origin
- GermanZipser
- Germanzipserdeutsch
- EnglishZipser German
Calque of German zipserdeutsch or simply Zipser + German, from German Zipser, from Zips.
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Zipser German. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zipser%20German
“Zipser German.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zipser%20German. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Zipser German,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Zipser%20German.
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